WE aernt the problem. Aernt YOU people mean to serve and protect US?
Security institutions are meant to serve the People of Canada, not individuals, and therefore take lawful direction from the democratically elected government. Most Canadians, unfortunately, support an "assault weapons" (dumb term) ban and provided the government a mandate to impose such a restriction during the last election. You can argue about minority governments, electoral process, etc but 4/5 (Liberal, NDP, Bloc, & Green) federal parties sitting in Parliament, if a debate were held today, support this. We would lose democratically.
Security institutions are duty bound to uphold democratic will. Unfortunately, in this case, the will of the majority opposes our cause placing us on the losing end. It sucks, no doubt. It's illogical and won't prevent violent crime. I don't agree with it personally, however, I can have civil dialogue and eventually accept the will of the majority. It's the social convention we live by, by living in Canada.
Look in this thread and it's easy to see why the majority don't want AR-15's kicking around. You have the Moron Labe crowd advocating armed resistance and in one case, civil war. WTF! Dude clearly has never been to a conflict zone or applied violence against other human beings....you don't even think about bringing that #### into this country. So for every 10,000 civil, nice to be around, "assault weapon" owners capable of honest debate, you get one retard like that and it destroys the image of all. Unfortunately these same guys are the ones with wet-dreams of societal collapse and a survivalist reality.